skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>why would an american with a high cost of living (result of policy choices) be expected to work for a mexican wage?

Because they're competing against Mexicans who will do the job at that wage, and probably automation and AI, and there is no universe in which American companies simply decide to spend more on local labor without commensurate benefit. It isn't any American employers' problem that the market has determined the value of US labor to be less than the cost of living, and not worth investing in.
One thing particularly not clear to me is weather ios scan all data in the phone and send it to be part of public index or not.
I see from how the feature works from the UI it seems it's not. If the feature activated by user action does this still constitute as phoning home?
These visas are outdated mechanisms, since US companies can now hire senior developers working remotely, at discount prices, from anywhere in the world

On one side we want to disagree with Trump, on the other we support remote work, though one for HN
Same here (not in the industry though). I recently got a personal project done with the help of LLM's that I otherwise wouldnt have had the time or energy to research properly if it wasnt for the time savings.
You can always reduce the clock and voltage to hit better Flops/Joule.
>There are other tools to provide privacy (DP, homomorphic encryption), while also using services. They are immensely complicated, and user's can't realistically evaluate risk.

It is simple for any user to evaluate risk the risk of their data being breached on 3rd party servers when their data isn't being sent off the device - there is none. It is only when corporations insist that they are going to send the data off your device whether you like it or not that evaluating risk becomes necessary.
Lyft Says San Francisco Overcharged It $100M in Taxes
Its quite strange. I'm being piled on for saying that I support American workers over immigrants (which is literally Trump's position) and I am accused of being bitter. I'm actually doing great considering. Would love to have a job, but if society won't allow me, then I'll simply use the system and continue building video games, not my fault. Blame Elon etc.
Another great article from Ken. I remember this particularly because the first PC that I bought with my own money had an affected CPU. Prior to this era I hadn't been much interested in PCs because they couldn't run "real" software. But Windows NT changed that (thank you Mr. Cutler), and Taiwanese sourced low cost motherboards made it practical to build your own machine, as many people still do today. Ken touched on the fact that it was easy for users to check if their CPU was affected. I remember that this was as easy as typing a division expression with the magic numbers into Excel. If MS had released a version of Excel that worked around the bug, I suspect fewer users would have claimed their replacement device!
The kids running local LLM's then have the right idea. They can stop with the last, good dataset before Sellama (and AdGPT) poisoned the well.
It’s a third party platform which can de-platform you at the drop of a hat and cause a big headache. Enough people are worried about that and the broader implications of a platform not governed according to the fundamental principles/values of free software. So I can understand why they advocate for the free software ecosystem to steer clear.

“Intellectual value” is a somewhat arbitrary criterion.
My hypothesis; it's people who believe in a just world. That think value and wisdom need to come from effort and/or pain.

Potential litmus test; They like videoclips from Coldplay where every frame is drawn with real crayons.

Then it's hard to value a machine that can not feel pain or effort and just generates. It's not fair it didn't have to suffer, and then flip the arrow to say, therefore it's not valuable.

Happy to becorrected. I'm also very curious what mental models are behind such big differences in perspectives.
>With the release of UUIDv7 that offers some benefits as ULIDs and are native to Postgres as of December 2024 (see the commit here), it might be better to switch to UUIDv7 in the future if one doesn’t care about URL friendliness.

Yes, I think UUIDv7 would be a much better choice especially because you could continue to use the UUID type in postgres and not need to devolve to text. You could also choose to encode the IDs with base32/58/64 at the edge to make them shorter and more URL friendly, though that adds a complexity to your application in tracking database IDs separately from public IDs.

I wish UUID would specify a more url-friendly standard representation format beyond the hex string with dashes.
I think they now allowed to use expired BRPs for a few months post 1st Jan.

From HO website: "You may be able to use your expired BRP to travel to the UK until 31 March 2025 if both: your BRP expires on or after 31 December 2024. you still have permission to stay in the UK."
It isn't inevitable: the US is committed to defending Taiwan as is Japan and nobody really likes Chinese expansion in the neighborhood.
Why not 3090s? Same VRAM and cheaper. With both setups you'd be limited to 1B. By contrast, you can run 4-bit quants of Llama 70B on two {3,4}090s, and it's still pretty lobotomized by modern standards.

You can also train your own model even without GPUs. Just depends on parameter size.
Companies vastly differ in serving amounts and some have multiple serve sizes.

What did you expect me to do, bash out a 5x10 multi-company matrix so you can compare perfectly across servings?
The thing is you need a threadripper-class build to make use of 4 GPUs in the first place. Ordinary PCs don't have the PCIe lanes necessary for that.

But pricing is okay-ish, have a look at Geohot's Tinybox for turnkey solutions.
yeah - this one was very popular in seasonal sports like football.
On Reddit there's reports of 8x4090, or even 8xH100. I don't know where people get this kind of money for this, and why they don't rent infra instead.
Don't forget to talk to your local power company one year in advance. They will need to upgrade your local substation transformer... :-)
This feels like a risk for America, Europe, India, and others. Africa is rich in resources, is strategically located in many ways, and will have a lot of the world’s population by the end of this century. Bringing them into the fold of liberal, freedom valuing societies is important. Letting them be controlled by or allied with the CCP or Islamic authoritarian regimes is a danger to everyone else.
I live in Europe and work for a company based in the USA.

I probably wouldn’t have had this job if the job listing had said that in-person interviews might be required, because if I read that back then I probably would have thought:

1. Flying all the way to the USA is expensive.

2. It takes a lot of time.

3. I’ll be exhausted from the flight when I arrive.

4. There’s probably a bunch of other people applying for this job. What’s the point in flying all that way for a job I don’t even know if I’ll get hired for.

In reality of course, there are other people working for that same company that live in Europe, including people in managerial roles, so if they had been the type of company to ask for an in-person interview they probably would have asked that I meet in a neighboring country. Not that I fly all the way to the USA for an interview.

Luckily for me, the job listing never said anything about any in-person interviews so I never started thinking about what it would mean to maybe have to fly to the USA and therefore I happily proceeded to apply for the job and after a take-home assignment and a few remote interviews I got hired :)

And now in present day, if I were to apply to a job in the current market I would probably apply even if the company was far away and mentioned that in-person interviews might be required. After all, it might not necessarily mean that long of a flight even. They could also have people working in countries near to you. And if the in-person interview does turn out to be too far away well you can always say no at that point. And in order to not waste too much of your own time you can keep applying and interviewing for other jobs in the meantime also, all the way up to when you finally get hired and have a contract for work signed.
I hope they seriously investigate OpenAI and their working conditions.
Yeah it’s the general same concept though. Ctrl + P and type or shift + shift and type the thing you want.
Having never read any formal dress code rules for any office, hospital, or place of worship I've been inside in my life, I've never gotten kicked out for wearing the wrong thing, and I've also never seen someone wearing a swimsuit in any of those places. This isn't some uniquely problem that only chess tournaments have, and it's not nearly as hard to solve as you're making it out to be.
don't you need nvlink? feel like an 80gb a100 would start being worth it at a $1.20/4x 4090 price point
That's not really fair; Apple's in a sticky wicket when it comes to the Chinese government, and they're not the only ones.

The Chinese government are debatably inhuman. They've literally censored the word "censorship." (Then they censored what people used euphemistically for censorship--"harmonious.") It's funny from the outside but also a miserable state of affairs in 2024.
>the vast majority of Americans used to be farmers

The vast majority of every agricultural society used to be farmers.
Mobygames page: https://www.mobygames.com/person/1708/martyn-james-brown/
NATO has never once been used in a defensive war, and is constantly used in wars of aggression, primarily by the US. It would be too exhausting to even type and link the various countries the US currently bombing and fighting in during 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
For a lot of things, hustling is probably at least as important to me as a hiring manager as rather amorphous "skills needed to do well in that position" at least as an entry-level employee. Of course, I don't want someone who has none of the skills needed for the job in most cases but they probably don't know most of what they need to learn anyway.
In the US. The UK or EU will do you 3000W out of a standard domestic socket.
China launches first spacecraft for planned 13,000-satellite constellation
The idea that the problem is primarily (or even substantially) the fault of employees is laughable. HMs put up all the hoops, and keep immeasurably more power in the process from start to finish.
Strictly Signal via self-hosted VPN for messages. My email web client provided by my email server (Zimbra) which are hosted on colocated servers. 3cx for calls via self-hosted PBX.

Video conferencing instead of FaceTime are made via self-hosted Jitsi and if I am to brag all running on FreeBSD.

Out of Apple or Google I trust neither however will align with Apple more than Google. It's as close as I can get from not having data collected from mongrels.
Wouldn’t a cluster of M4 minis cost less and provide more VRAM? There are posts about people getting decent performance for a lot less than 12k USD.
If you don't personally write the software stack on your devices, at some point you have to trust a third party.
Thanks for sharing. Have you prodded the model with various inputs and written an article that show various output examples? I'd love to get an idea of what sort of "end product" 4x4090s is capable of producing.
The same gov that’s in bed with OpenAI???
So what exactly happens if/when the (seemingly arbitrary) 100 billion mark is hit? Microsoft divests (LOL)? OpenAI dissolves? They release everything for free?

But hey, at least we have a target to look out for. We know that if they start nearing the 100 billion mark, we should be on the lookout for the next sca- err, endeavour that Altman takes up
In most assembly languages, accessing local variables on the stack is easy, plus you have multiple registers for temporary data. Forth feels extremely limiting compared to that.

On an architecture without those features, like the 6502, Forth may be a good idea, and possibly faster than C - but only if it's compiled to machine code with some peephole optimizations, so that e.g. "123 MY-VAR C!" translates into "LDA #123 ; STA MY-VAR", instead of a naive implementation where the address and constant would first be pushed onto the stack.

And any more complicated optimizations would probably require first "decompiling" the Forth code back into a higher level of abstraction. It's practically the same as assembler macros otherwise.

edit: fixed order of operands. I originally wrote "MY-VAR 123 C!", but then remembered that the address to store to has to be on top of stack. IMHO, infix notation is less confusing, and writing a recursive-descent parser to handle it isn't that hard compared to everything else in implementing a compiler. And of course in an infix language, "123 := MYVAR" would be a syntax error, instead of storing (the low byte of) the address of MYVAR into memory location 123.
Yeah, it's powerful, but can it run crysis?
One of the major contributing factors to success was multiple overlapping design teams and outsourced chip fabs. That allowed Nvidia to deliver a cycle time of six months instead of the 18 month cycles of their competition. While one team was delivering, another would be designing. It allowed Nvidia to lap the competition over and over again.

There was a chapter on this in Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Rumelt that was pretty good.
>> life cycle of the new Segway bikes is three to five years.

...then I guess it's promptly thrown off a bridge into the river. The idea that a bicycle lasts 3 years, even with hard, year-round riding, is from the disposable tech consumer mindset. A well maintained commuter bike - not an expensive one - lasts 10+ years. These aren't really bicycles, but computerized, electric mopeds.
Yes, that's what I was doing. Thanks for the info.
> This is what a good privacy story looks like.

A good privacy story actually looks like not sending any info to anyone else anywhere at any time.
I may be overly cynical, may live in the rarified bubble of the tech-savvy, but I think Google as it has existed is already dead and doesn't yet know it.

Their search results have been less than useless to me for some years now. And then LLM's came along and have been my go-to for all queries.
Are you sure it is because of the cable? By default Apple devices only charge to 80% when you plug them in and then do the final 20% later around when they anticipate you are going to unplug it.
Why do they never make these with 4 modifier keys on the left side like Mac keyboards(Ctrl, Fn, Alt, Cmd)? Hate not being able to use muscle memory switching between my MBP and an external keyboard.
> It's much more difficult to get sponsors for an event if the participants are dressed like they slept in their clothes.

Anyone who considers jeans to look like "clothes someone would sleep in" is immediately dubious in my book. Jeans are so extraordinarily uncomfortable to sleep in that I don't think I've ever intentionally done that in my life.
> No matter how many times I tell some LLM I want it to ask clarifying questions to provide better answers, it just won't

You're telling me there's a modern frontier model that refused to ask clarifying questions after you told it to?
Yes, there is a limit in both directions. We probably would agree with disqualification a playet he showed up completely nude.
You didn't do anything wrong - Kling can occasionally return a static result particularly for 2D images. It might have been the "grid lines" but Kling's model is effectively a black box.

https://kling.kuaishou.com/en

Side note: Nice video - setting up the rigging mesh reminds me of the "puppet warp" deformation system in Adobe Photoshop.

@Vic:

Bit of advice, you need to build some kind of a static checker (either in terms of the total compressed size of the video - very small file sizes likely indicate a failed gen, or in terms of a hash as a measure of frame-to-frame changes) - to help set up an automated appeals for customers... having to manage this on a case-by-case basis will destroy any enthusiasm you might have for this project.
> When Google came onto the scene, I credit its success to the tried and true paradigm that makes companies successful: simple and easy to use.

If Google's competitive advantage was only that they had a clean and simple web page, I don't think they'd have nearly the sticking power they ended up having. You can design a front-end that looks like Google's original UI in a matter of hours.

It seems implausible tale that in the 25 years since their ascendance, nobody has tried to compete with them with a simple-looking search box.

Google became dominant because Google was much better than the alternatives.
> The Kalash are the people who Alexander (sikandar) left behind. So, you realize that is Hellenistic times, and not pre-Greek times

Folktales and histories can be created well beyond ethnogenesis.

Neighboring Yusufzai claim descent from King Saul and the Israelites in the Ain-e-Akbari (16th century), though genetic sequencing shows little-to-no divergence from other northwest South Asian ethnic groups like Sindhis, Baloch, Brahui, Punjabis, etc [0]

In fact, the same study sequenced Kalash and found that ethnic Kalash appeared to be an isolate community [0], as was further shown in 2015 [1].

A lot of us ethnic groups all across South Asia began creating fantastical tales of ethnogenesis as our valleys and towns began opening up to outside influence in the 19th century.

Hell, even my mom's community (a neighboring one around 4-5 valleys away from Khowars and Kalash) claims ethnogenesis from Israelites or Scynthians on occasion and one sub-community claimed to have fought with Ali at Karbala, though when sequenced we're similar to our peer ethnic groups.

I don't need some damn Firangi telling me or my community about us. We chased you all out in 2021, 1989, and 1947.

> Also, your last sentence is confusing as well. Someone does not need to actively disprove all other possibilities to prove what actually was recorded in history. Who do you believe the Kalash are- Sean Connery's subjects as per 'The Man Who Would be King'? lol

This is confusing as hell as well.

But basically, what I'm getting is that there is a need for Inner Asian communities to be genetically sequenced as well. It has medical (eg. Precision medicine) as well as anthropological value.

[0] - https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo...

[1] - https://www.cell.com/ajhg/supplemental/S0002-9297(15)00137-8
> San Francisco unfairly labeled money earned by Lyft drivers as company revenue.

So the people doing the (actual) work on behalf of the company are.... Customers, somehow?

I'd laugh if it wasn't so depressing that this idiotic argument might actually win in court, considering corporations can get away with literally anything these days.
I dont fully get something here. Being a good Engineer is a trait I would seek in a candidate, not really the actual hard skill knowledge.

That is changing every day, and if you are a life long learner, you will master it. I get that domain specific experience matters.

For example I passed the CCIE 10 years ago but today using Aider and LLMs to boost up Network DevOps related developments.
I think using LLMs for code generation is a powerfull use case , is not really cheating, but a new way of working.
Why would an employer not value this, and hiring managers, why are you not testing candidates in open book format on real world issues, giving candidates access to the latest State of the art LLMs, instead of using good old puzzles?

Today in development and Infra engineering space it might make more sense to ask candidates to build something real instead asking for a motivation letter and if they used Sonnet 3.5 v2 that is just a proof for trying to be effective.
there is very little legit use of H1B, the tech companies are abusing it by not hiring US employees in lieu of getting underpaid H1B’s who have no option to leave for a better opportunity or higher pay (or to unionize) - modern day white collar “slavery”
Let's talk riser cables. I keep encountering issues with riser connectors claiming to support PCIe 4.0, which seem to have sub-par performance. They work fine with the GPUs and NICs I tested them with, but attaching a nvme drive causes all kinds of issues and prevents the machine from booting. I guess nvme isn't as tolerant of elevated bit-error-rates.

That just doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in those risers, so now I'm contemplating mcio risers.
The recent web search integration actually made ChatGPT much worse at this specific kind of search (I want a piece of media, but I only remember characteristics of it)

If you explicitly tell it not to search, it's less likely to anchor itself in trying to search the web and going down rabbit holes.

It also more likely to pause at times and ask the right questions to nudge.
Is Societal Collapse Inevitable?
So you spam whataboutism comments here because you just don't care?

We need less sarcasm, not more.
Biden continued providing weapons, without which the genocide would be unable to continue. If he wanted the genocide to stop, he could stop providing weapons.

Sadly, it is extremely typical for "liberal parties" - both currently and historically - that they will always talk about how bad things are bad, but when making actual decisions, they almost always support the bad things.
This is great, never thought to use ChatGPT for this use. I have been trying to remember a game from extremely early memories where I was able to play it for a single weekend at an uncle's house in my youth when my parents were out of town.

Bugged me on and off for the better part of a decade and I couldn't figure it out from describing it to google - the only thing I knew for sure were a few graphical UI screens seared into my brain, the rest was far too generic to really narrow things down.

In the end ChatGPT got it correct in the first try from a minimal description, confirmed by watching a youtube playthrough and the memories coming back immediately.

Masters of Orion if anyone was curious :)
Sooooo.. how about venues just be required to provide affordable black unisex chess mumuu's for players as needed? Problem solved?
Having lived next to the Motorola EPA superfund site, and more recently closer to the TSMC site, I find no consolation in your reply. The lack of transparency and accountability is too great.
no, these chips are optimized for inference not training & frankly cuda is still table stakes.

HN loves it some Apple
Never gone through one myself thankfully, but anything where you get 6 months of severance + other benefits jumps to mind. For example the 37signals drama that happened a few years ago. Technically not a layoff, but I'd have a hard time saying no to an offer like that of my own volition, so getting it during a layoff is the best possible situation I'd wager
It’s very fair, Apple has historically been very happy to be the sponsor of horrible human rights violations in their supply chain, only marginally paying attention to suicides in their factories when the PR got too bad.

Apples version of “human right” includes suicide nets as an alternative to treating people humanely. That’s why their stance is pure marketing - they have blood on their hands.

And guess what? You can’t use Google in China, and while Google isn’t by any means perfect, they aren’t Apple.
How long does training a 1B or 500M model take approximately on the 4-GPU setup? Or does that dramatically depend on the training data? I didn’t see that info on your pages.